Shuttle-guard for looms



(No Model.)

J. SULLIVAN.

SHUTTLE GUARD FOR LOOMS.

'No. 355,797. Patented Jan. l1, 1887.

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JOHN SULLIVAN, OF FALL RIVER, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE DRAPER & SONS,

OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHUTTLE-GUARD FOR LOOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,797, dated January11, 1887.

Application filed May 12, 1886. Serial No. 201,944.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN SULLIVAN, of Fall River, county, of Bristol andState of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Shuttle-Guardsfor Looms, of which the following description, in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawingsrepresenting like parts.

My invent-ion consisis,essentially,in thecombination, with the upperends of the lay-swords and hand-rail, of a shuttle-guard rodconstructedsubstantially as hereinafter particularly set forth, andextended along the front of the hand-rail above the race of the lay, andprovided with eyes, whereby the guard may be attached to the handrail bythe bolt usually employed to secure the hand-rail to the laysword, aswill be described.

Figure 1, in front elevation, represents a sufficient portion of a layand attached shuttle-guard to enable my invention to be under stood, thelay, hand-rail, and guard being broken out centrally; Fig. 2, a top orplan view 25 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section of Fig. 2 in the dotted lineand Fig. 4 a detail to illustrate one common plan of attaching ashuttle-guard, the said figure showing a part of a hand-rail with oneend of the shuttle-guard attached to it; also a piece of the upper endof the laysword to support the hand-rail.

The beam A of the lay, the lay-swords B and hand-rail O, and bolts D, toconfine the hand-rail to the upper-ends of thelay-swords, are and may beof usual construction.

The shuttleguard is composed of a'rod, at, having at its ends eyes orloops a, the said rod being long enough to extend along the handrailfrom one to the other bolt D, so that the said bolts are utilized tobolt the shuttle-guard firmly in place, notwithstanding strain on thesaid guard.

(No model.)

In my invention the shuttle-guard may be quickly applied to any usualloom without boring the hand-rail, and my improved shut tle'guard may beapplied to hand-rails eondemned by reason of holes made therein byshuttle-guards attached to them at points between the lay-swords, theends of the guards having been passed through the hand-rail, as usual,or as shown in Fig. 4.

My improved shuttle-guard is bent, substantially as shown in thedrawings, to form rests a which come against the front side of thehandrail, and the ends of the said rod from its shoulders to" to itsloops or eyes a are bent upwardly, so as to leave the central part ofthe rod a little below the under side of the hand-rail, while the eyes areceive the usual bolts, D, at substantially the center line of thehandrail, the rod being bent at the shoulders at in such form as tothrowthe central portion of the rod forward in front of the hand-rail,substantially to the front of the raceway of the lay, and so as tooverhang the usual shuttle in its flight along the raceway of the lay.

I claim- The shuttle-guard constructed with eyes a, rests a shoulders66", and a central portion standing off from and extending below thelower edge of the hand-rail, combined with the hand-rail, beam, swords,and bolts D,.common as fastenings to both the guard and handrail,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification intheprescn cc of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN SULLIVAN.

Vitnesses: v

THOMAS FORTUNE, DENNIS V. SULLIVAN.

